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Band of Brothers - episode 9 (Patreon)

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2022-05-26 19:21:04
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Full link EU: https://youtu.be/BLFj2676gHw

Full link USA/other (96% speed): https://youtu.be/CFulHZyRC14

This one was just... heartcrushing :( 

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Anonymous

Thank you for this reaction Mary. It's a very tough episode to watch, with its unflinching portrayal. Even though I've watched it before it's still hugely shocking and upsetting. With regards to a future series to watch, may I suggest Severance? 1 season, 9 episodes. It's one of the best tv series to come out in the past five years. I would avoid looking up too much about it though, its almost tailor-made for a first-time reaction.

Bay

Great reaction to a very tough episode. I have seen the episode 4 or 5 times and I was still choking up right along with you. As far as other series The Pacific is good and it would be good timing since its mostly happening at the same time as the events in Band of Brothers but if your looking to get away from war Stranger Things and Westworld are both good shows Narcos is another good one.

Nanette Davis

You should definitely watch the Band of Brothers "episode 11" which is a documentary about Band of Brothers and where all the interviews with the men came from. It is called "We stand alone together" and is available on YouTube. It wraps up the series -- brings it all together. It is really good. It is all of the men telling their stories and covers what happened to them up to their old age. They show their reunions they had up to when they died. They brought some of them back Belgium to Bastogne. It is really good -- a good ending to the series.

Isaac zaragoza

Unfortunately, too my knowledge not many people knew to the full Extent what was going on inside those camps. the Nazi's made propaganda films from inside the camps, however the films showed people having fun and enjoying life. They sent Out those films to other countries and told them that the people in those camps we're criminals that were being rehabilitated. Unfortunately because there was very little evidence about what was really happening, and antisemitism's prevalence in the world at that time, the world took the Nazi's lie at face value. It wasn't until the Discovery of the camps by allied forces that the reality started to become more widespread.

RocktSurgeon
>>84641486

It was definitely known at leadership levels, at least in theory. There was actually a Polish intelligence officer who infiltrated Auschwitz and helped set up resistance/reported back in detail about the atrocities (then escaped, though the soviets later executed him). That said, my understanding is that it was very limited how much that knowledge made it down to the average soldiers. And honestly, before this you hear stories of something like that… especially as an average soldier used to a certain amount of propaganda demonization of the other side… do you believe it? It’s .. hard to wrap your head around humanity being able to do something like that even now, even knowing it happened.

RocktSurgeon

I’ve not been to the camps, though it’s long been something I would plan to do when I’m at all in the area. Have been to the Washington DC Holocaust museum a few times though. Only once for myself, the other times to be there with/for others who hadn’t been. It is… a lot. Every time. There’s a big difference between knowing the history and having it so personalized as they make an effort to do there. The room of shoes is the hardest…

RocktSurgeon

Many of the people portraying the people in the camp were cancer patients, so emancipated because of the treatment they were going though. And the main cast didn’t fully know what they were in for, so some of the reaction is aided that they purposely hadn’t seen the camp and didn’t fully know how much was going to be shown. For what it’s worth, I think your reaction is pretty perfect.

Jeff Martens

I agree with Mary that when we get a chance, we should visit one of the Nazi death camps. A few years ago I visited Sachsenhausen, which was moving and fascinating, and I don't think will ever totally leave my mind. It's just a short train ride north from Berlin and well worth the trip.

W T
>>84632934

Severeance is top-tier television and something newer. Arcane is still pretty fresh and some of the most creative and engaging TV-making I've seen, Peacemaker and The Suicide Squad prior I'd recommend purely because Mary truly enjoyed Gunn stuff... I'd go for weird picks too, like sketch comedy? I Think You Should Leave keeps me awake at night and I'd love for folks to give it a shot. I still say Severance would be neat too. Definitely no looking up anything (and maybe avoid looking up characters, which can always be a bit of a hazard). Not sure if folks care for it, seeing as AppleTV shows still kind of are on the more obscure side, but it sure lives up to the hype.

W T
>>84641486

Numbers sure were floating around, and after the Allies managed to decipher Enigma-enciphered messages, we even got fairly early confirmation of some whopping numbers - refer to the Höfle Telegram, which I don't think was appreciated and circulated for its contents (matching statistics summarizing Operation Reinhard and the Final Solution as such) at the time. So... considering how much more cumbersome proliferation of news was back then and the fact that soldiers would hardly be briefed on something so secondary to the War Effort, I'd say it's a fair assumption that people were suspecting things - modelled more on internment camps common in the US then, meaning people were severely, drastically underestimating the extent of the Endlösung. Some folks knew things were happening, and BoB sure is a dramatization with a huge portion of bias and fiction injected by Ambrose and the showrunners alike. Still, it wouldn't have had to be all that different in many regards, refeeding syndrome is absolutely a thing, and the wild thing topping this insane cake of human atrocity is how infinitely small the extent portrayed in the show was. A fairly common theme among survivors acclimatizing to their liberators and social contact: how do I tell my story without people thinking I've gone mad in the process? It's one thing imagining literal thousands of trainloads of corpses piling up, but seeing them, witnessing people get murdered or just die from exhaustion constantly while possibly doing everything to help someone else in the process, likely for naught... it's just a neverending story of cruelty. Growing up with these realities and learning the gist of it all as a child still is wild - and fully necessary as far as anyone should be concerned. "Wehret den Anfängen" and all that, promptly kicking off the next and very real discussion about how much we really took away from all that. Not enough, one might argue.

David Bennett

Mari, I knew this would be a devastating episode. It hits me like a ton of bricks EVERY TIME. I believe that you are correct about how important it is to ensure that younger people have a real understanding of the horror that the Nazis inflicted. While it is cliche to say, it is VERY important here: those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it. We cannot and MUST not allow this kind of thing to happen again. YOU, Mari, are making a difference in the world just by watching this and suffering through it. I want to tell you about a man who taught history at the junior high school that I attended far back in the mists of time. His name was Jimmy Gentry and he was one of the men who landed on Omaha Beach and fought in the Battle of the Bulge at Bastogne. He was one on of the first americans to walk IN to the camp at Dachau. I heard him tell the story to several of us students as a seventh grader. This man was on of the strongest toughest men I have ever known and it absolutely destroyed me to see him break down and cry telling us about how terrible that experience was. He actually just passed away a few weeks ago at the age of 96. Thank you once again for making the choice to do something hard because it is the right thing to do.

Anonymous

Band of Brothers has certain details that set it apart as a more nuanced depiction of WWII than we commonly get. The serial format makes that easier, but often all that means is that it becomes possible: It's one of the best series I've seen. I remember you mentioned another of my favourites in one of your videos, that I would very much like for you to watch: Rome. Like Band of Brothers, the casting, acting, and writing are great, the production values are high, and it feels authentic.

Mike LL

Thank you Mary for that heartbreaking reaction. I've seen this series about four times now and it is such a privilege to watch it again with you. I recommend watching the movie The Best Years of Our Lives which won the Best Picture Oscar for 1946 and tells the story of American servicemen coming home after WWII. This would be very fitting to watch after this show as it tells the story about how these men tried to readjust to home life after carrying the burden of these horrifying experiences. To say it tugs at the heart would be an understatement.

Bubba Fett

Looking for followups the Pacific would be highly recommended, it's more or less a sequel series to BoB in terms of production and will take you the other half of the war. If you do, make sure to watch the intros, most seem to skip but they really give a good background on what's happening and Tom Hanks does a spectacular job narrating.

Armchair Wizard
>>84755102

I second this about Pacific. However, warning, its even heavier than BoB. Both are great though.